DAM Foundation Salary Survey Questions

1: EMPLOYMENT PROFILE: What is your age?

2: What is your gender?

3: If you choose to identify yourself by race for demographic purposes, please do:

4: Please indicate your job title. If you feel that your job title would prevent this from being an anonymous survey, please indicate if you are a Specialist, Supervisor, Manager or higher level

5: Comments, if any, on question 4

6: Please indicate the general geographic area in which you work. If you work remotely, please note the geographic location of both your office and your company’s main headquarters. If your DAM serves a global enterprise, please make a note of that as well

7: Which of the following best describes your current employment status?

8: Comments, if any, on question 7

9: On average, how many hours per week do you work?

10: Which of the following best describes your current employer?

11: Functional unit within the institution
(NOTE: If your unit combines two or more of the following categories, please choose the one that is most central to its mission. If the functions are essentially equal in importance within the unit, choose the category that applies to the majority of the work that you perform.)

12: How many years have you been with your current employer?

13: How many years have you been in your current profession?

14: Within the last 12 months, which of these were the primary functions in your role? Pick as many as needed.

Selection, appraisal, or acquisition of materials for your DAM Arrangement and description (forming collections and creating metadata) for materials in your DAM Reference services (answering calls for assistance and research) related to your DAM Maintaining access (ACLs, user portals, registration maintenance and controls) to your DAM Digital Preservation (strategies such as migration, server backups, security risk assessments, etc.) Outreach, advocacy, or promotion (internally advocating for input/upload to your DAM) Managing long-term DAM projects (library consolidation, scanning projects, development of APIs) Participating in professional development activities (e.g., attending conferences or continuing education programs, reading professional literature, p Teaching DAM-related courses (how to use your DAM, how to upload and create metadata, etc.) Seeking an DAM-related degree or certificate Consulting on DAM-related topics or practices Other DAM-related activities Activities not directly related to DAM work or field

15: With which of the following kinds of records do you work? (Select all that apply)

Audio Text Images / Graphics Videos Multimedia Other records Do not work directly with digital assets

16: Please indicate your total annual salary related to DAM work for 2011. This information is totally anonymous, and at time of publication the common currency conversion rates posted at end of day 12/31/2010 will be used in the results.

EDUCATION

The following four questions relate to educational background, as this often impacts salaries. Please answer all to the best of your ability. All comments on questions 13-16 should be posted in the free text field of question 23.

19: Please indicate your educational background. Check all that apply. If you hold more than one degree on a given level (multiple certificates or degrees of the same level), please note this in the free text field of question 23.

20: Please indicate education you are currently pursuing. Check all that apply. If you are pursuing more than one degree on a given level (multiple certificates or degrees of the same level), please note this in the free text field of question 23.

High school Professional Certificate Associate BA/BS/BFA MA/MS/MFA MLS/MLIS MBA PhD JD Other (Please specify in question 23) None of the above

21: Please indicate any education you plan to pursue sometime in the future. (Select all that apply)

High school Professional Certificate Associate BA/BS/BFA MA/MS/MFA MLS/MLIS MBA PhD JD Other (Please specify in question 23) None of the above

22: What has been the primary source for the DAM training or education you have received to date? That is, what education (degree, certificate, self-education, or job training) has been most helpful to you in your DAM work?

23. Post any comments regarding questions 19-22 here

DAM AND YOUR CAREER PATH

24: What led you to begin working in your first DAM-related job?

25: Is DAM your first career?

26: What was your first career?

27: In what year did you begin your first DAM job?

28: Are you planning to leave DAM work to pursue another field?

29: If you expect to end your career while still working in the DAM field, when do you plan to do so?

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EDUCATION

DAM AND YOUR CAREER PATH